My understanding of history is pretty pathetic, and I am trying to improve it. Looking for a book that isn’t revisionist, racist, or full of colonial apologia. Something that goes as far back as the 15th century would be perfect.
My understanding of history is pretty pathetic, and I am trying to improve it. Looking for a book that isn’t revisionist, racist, or full of colonial apologia. Something that goes as far back as the 15th century would be perfect.
Someone else mentioned my favorite anthropologist, David Graeber, and I’m working through that book right now!
Another anthropologist, Eric Wolf, wrote Europe and the People Without History, which you might also find interesting.
It covers the time span you’re looking for, and focuses on how global, political-economic trajectories were shaped by the “people without history” (the colonized).